Land Trust Alliance

Tax Incentive

House Passes Tax Incentive Bill, Senate Next

The House passed the America Gives More Act of 2015 (H.R. 644), a bill containing the tax incentive for conservation easements. The vote, 279-137, reflects 67% support. The enhanced deduction expired on Dec. 31, 2014, impacting conservation across the country.

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home: that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
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John Muir